When I last delved into the world of rejected petitions there were 35,842 of them. Now there are 37,176 of them, so people have not lost their enthusiasm for trying to find a solution to the things that irritate them by means of a debate in the House of Commons. It is also clear that that the pattern of petitions varies with the seasons and with issues that are in the news. Thus, the most recent batch of rejected petitions is dominated by calls for silent fireworks and the banning of noisy fireworks. Another common topic in recent weeks was the issue of American Bully dogs: some demanding they all be shot and others asking that the owners are not stigmatised.
But, scattered amongst these are some attempts at having a petition raised that demonstrate the sheer eccentricity, the sense of humour and a widespread inability to master the rudiments of English grammar that is prevalent among those who raise rejected petitions.
Outrage at the price of confections is quite common and the absence of a fast food product stirred one failed petitioner. “Lock the price of a Freddo at 25p” demanded someone who justified his attempt saying: “The price of a Cadbury’s Freddo is absolutely abhorrent. The U.K. is in a cost of living crisis, and one can’t even purchase oneself a Cadbury’s Freddo without breaking the bank.” But, at least Freddos are available, even if overpriced, unlike the McRib which appears to have been banned. “Bring the McRib back to the U.K.” demanded one person who asked: “Unban the McRib, get McDonald’s on the line and tell them to bring the McRib back to the U.K.” Sadly, the McRib will remain ‘banned’.
Demonstrating an enthusiasm for exclamation marks but not for spelling, Transport for London (TfL) will never know how close it came to being the subject of an early day motion as a result of one hopeful request to “Make TFL free!!!” Why, well it is clearly explained that we need to “make TFL free as there (sic) scammers”.
As a country we have mainly dealt with prejudice and discrimination. We have legislation covering race, religion, age and sexual orientation. You would think we had it sorted, but no, there is a group of people who continue to suffer — mainly in silence — but no longer, or so hoped one hopeful petitioner who, we can assume, had ginger hair. So “Make picking on people with red/ginger hair a hate crime” was the title of one rejected petition which specifically asked: “To make picking on people with red or ginger hair a crime.” Sadly, for this red-haired person, his particular petition will not be debated but he clearly had tapped into the zeitgeist as his rejection was on the basis that “there’s already a petition about this issue”, which is quite a common reason for rejection. He was pointed to another petition which was more eloquently worded and which asked Parliament to “Make hair colour a protected characteristic covered by hate crime legislation“, stating: “We want hair colour to be made a protected characteristic to protect people with red or ginger hair from discrimination. Hate crime laws should also be extended to cover offences motivated by hostility or prejudice based on a person’s hair colour.”
An old chestnut, which appeared in my last article on rejected petitions, is school toilets, or restricted access to them. Someone requested Parliament “To make schools allow students to go to the bathrooms during lessons“, asking: “What if someone has some sort of special needs the school doesn’t know of and doesn’t let them go? It will make them super embarrassed about it. Also what if a girl was on her period? She will obviously have to go to the bathrooms to do whatever that is needed.” This was another example of a petition rejected on the grounds that there was already one on the same topic. Maybe so but I searched Hansard in vain for any debates on the topic. In fact, the subject of toilets has barely arisen in Parliament except for one mention by Tory leader hopeful Kemi Badenoch who raised the issue of public toilets in July 2022.
One rejected petition requested “The Police should use water cannons and tear gas at demonstrators and protest (sic)” reckoning that “Water cannons (sic) and tear gas are often used in conjunction with other crowd control methods, such as batons and shields. They can be especially effective at dispersing large crowds or crowds that are resisting arrest”. What astonished me most about this petition, with which I have a modicum of sympathy, was not that it should appear but that it was rejected because: “It’s about something that the U.K. Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.” If not in the Government’s purview, then whose?
The above are, remarkably, some of the more serious attempts at raising a petition. Clearly from someone who was used to burning the candle at both ends came “Make mondays (sic) start at 10:30 for work and school” because: “If you do this, then it will give people time to adjust and wind down before the first day of the week, making their attitude to working better and increasing their productivity.” The fact that both school and work were mentioned makes me suspect that this came from a teacher who makes the best of the weekends.
As a former duck enthusiast who kept a few as pets I was not sure what to make of the petition — rejected because “It’s not clear what the petition is asking the U.K. Government or Parliament to do” — requesting that we “Don’t class ducks or pigs as live stock (sic)so it’s easier to have them as pet’s (sic)“. And that we should, therefore, “Class ducks as household pets”. As far as I know nothing can stop you from keeping a duck as a pet, although the petitioner may have a point about pigs as, according to GOV.UK: “If you keep a pig or ‘micropig’ as a pet, you’re considered a pig keeper” and that leads to a world of pain and regulations. Trawling through rejected petitions is educational if nothing else.
Finally, my favourite among the most recent rejects was one asking Parliament to “Increase the number of police officers on a motorbike“, which compounded the ambiguity by requesting Parliament to: “Vote for Increasing the number of police officers on a motorbike.” The reasons, according to the petitioner, were that taking this action would “allow quick capture of a thief who usually is on a motorbike too”. The person clearly had not considered the time it would take to get several police officers on to a single motorbike, nor did the person suggest an optimum number. We will never know what Parliament would have made of this request as the petition was rejected because “It was created using a fake or incomplete name”. Shame.
Dr. Roger Watson is Academic Dean of Nursing at Southwest Medical University, China. He has a PhD in biochemistry. He writes in a personal capacity.
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“Data, not dates” ….. HA. Double fucking HA! More like: “Agenda, not truth”
I think they mean that they are waiting for Data to be beamed down from the Starship Enterprise!?
Is there the slightest chance of “back to normal” on June 21st though? If not, they effectively lied to us about vaccines and drugs being the way out, and we should not forget it. More worryingly, they don’t seem to have any other plan.
Normal involves back to 2019 for me. Coerced vaccinations, passports, tests before going to concerts, jabbing babies, annual boosters (for a fucking cold!) – none of this is normal. We won’t be going back to normal on 21st June, that much is certain.
Don’t forget to wear the mask! Forever…..
Is any of this nonsense not forever?
And they should level with us about what they’re planning to do with the inevitable seasonal increase in respiratory deaths this Winter – rather than just employing covid marshals with contracts until December on the quiet.
They’ve lied from the start – why stop now?
Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I believe that politicians and public health officials should not lie as a point of principal. I suppose there’s no way of deposing such people?
Who knows? I think lies were told about the Iraq war and not much came of it. This is bigger by far but the whole world is against us, not just the UK establishment. All one can do is plug away and hope that by chipping away we reach a tipping point. But lockdowns plus vaccine have provided sufficient cover for the lies not to have been widely noticed.
None of them have any courage, none whatsoever.
And with a possible option to renew the CM contracts for a further year!
Unfortunately I can never go back to 2019 normal now that I have learnt that 95%+ of my fellow human beings are utter morons running entirely on primitive instincts and not intelligence. I am no longer proud of my country and the dream normal for me has become living somewhere where the nearest neighbour lives at least a mile away.
No chance of going back to normal in June or in the next few decades unless the true extent of the madness is exposed and understood, which is unlikely to happen given the powerful forces at work to prevent that.
My worry is that once pubs are open and a few other headline restrictions are lifted, most people will acquiesce in the “new normal” which is now generally accepted as inevitable, and many antu-lockdown campaigners will move on – something I understand as who wants to spend decades of their life banging their head against a brick wall?
Quite frightening really, if we are going to have a section of the population treated as second class citizens for years. A dangerous road to go down, and could lead to even greater horrors. It seems to me like we will need to develop a whole alternative culture. Make no mistake, (effectively) segregation is where we’re headed, and it’s hard to see it ending well.
Zombies on one side.
Human beings on the other.
Choose your side.
For zombies, it’s a no-brainer.
Oh they’ve got a ”plan” all right. Do you REALLY think they’d share it with us peasants?
Even more worryingly, they are well ahead in the polls.
From article: “For over-60s, the rate was 9.1, down from 9.9 the week before and a high of 454 at the peak of the second wave. Both lockdown restrictions and vaccines — which were given to the elderly first — have helped turn the tide on the crisis.”
COMMENT: Maybe, to some degree. What can’t be known is whether these ratios would have declined if no one had been vaccinated … or if the lockdown measures would have been cancelled seven weeks ago.
I can report that in my state all the COVID metrics have also been plunging … and even today, only 15 percent of our state’s population has been fully vaccinated.
I still think “seasonality” and the growing number of people who have acquired natural immunity largely explain these declines.
its natural virus progression – immunity and season. nothing to do with lockdown or vaccines. there is literally nothing else which explains the below
Isn’t there a suspicion that the large number of deaths in the first seven weeks of the vaccination programme accentuated the decline through the course of “vaccinations”, with a lot of the most frail dying in January meaning a smaller pool likely to die later on (plus sesonality etc.)? And if only deaths within a week of getting the covid jab are counted as “vaccine deaths (rather than within 2 weeks, or 4 weeks), does this give an accurate picture?
Bill – there was no f.ing ‘crisis’ on which to ‘turn the tide’ in the first place!
Last year was very ordinary in terms of mortality – both in the US and UK.
Absolutely, your last paragraph is spot on. But seasonality and herd immunity aren’t in the “official” narrative.
Everywhere I go I hear people saying 21st June and it’s all back to normal. Some are calling it mid summer nights dream! So if it doesn’t happen perhaps there will be a mass turning point?
Midsummer night DREAM. They will not wake up from this nightmare on the 22nd June. Sadly, people will continue to sleepwalk into this mess.
I think most people have accepted there will be a new normal. The only unknown is to what extent it will resemble the old normal and to what extent it will hold or whether we go back into lockdown every winter.
We can but hope…not holding my breath though.
To be expected with seasonal viruses, especially with all the nice weather we’re having lately.
Has the Daily dashboard update changed its’ criteria for showing yellow (low numbers) on the map?
Total numbers on the graph are going down, but areas like Cornwall, which were yellow, have turned to a light green again. Seems to me they did what the German news did, they just lowered the numbers to justify a darker colour.
If you found my video on the origins of SARS-CoV-2 (“The Elephant in the City” on YouTube) interesting, you might find the video that YouTube censored to be of interest. It details the financial ties between the US NIH and Big Pharma, with Fauci at the center of it all, and how they lead them to suppress ivermectin. It’s on Odysee, safe from further censorship: https://odysee.com/@crooksy417:0/MENK5956-1-:3
Yes. Big pharma suppressed apricot kernels as well. Quite worrying that as one of the conditions for these “vaccines” getting emergency authorisation is that there’s no alternative, they have to pretend that vitamin D, invermectin etc. don’t work. Lies, damn lies and big pharma…
Not looked here for a while. It used to be a daily thing for me until Toby changed it…something about too many deplorables?? Anyway, read this article and have to say find your backbone Toby and face up to the not-a-conspiracy many of us tried to tell you about all those months ago. Heed your mate Delingpole.
It is a conspiracy, but the idea of it being a theory is ridiculous at this point. Global governments have most certainly conspired against the people. It’s not about money – it’s about absolute control. Even the impending Chinese-style Social Credit System is about control.
”… why seven more weeks of restrictions?….” It’s not the restrictions that matter per se – it’s the excuse to continue the ”emergency” and therefore the ”vaccine”. That’s why masks are going to remain – to reinforce the idea of a ”pandemic” even though there isn’t one.
A good point; the “vaccine” products only have ‘Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA)’ ONLY, so if the emergency ends, so do they. logically. Mind you, we live in the real political world.
Of course they will not lift the restrictions they need everyone to be jabbed. This is the reason for the date. If they lift the restrictions they will also have to lift the emergency pandemic rules and one of those is the permission to use 70 million people as experimental rats. If we all went back to gathering the under 40’s would start chatting and wondering why I need a jab when nobody is ill.
Simply stop following the rules. They make no sense.. Go out take off your mask socialise with friends and family. Honestly, start living your life. Under 50’snearly 0 risk. Start living again. All the older people took the koolaid. Sadly some died afterwards, see all the nursing home reports of deaths post COVID vaccine there are many. Boy did they keep that quiet. Why? Ask any care worker, or medic. Although they have been gagged no doubt. Sad.
‘Scientists are working on vaccines that spread like a disease. What could possibly go wrong?’:
https://thebulletin.org/2020/09/scientists-are-working-on-vaccines-that-spread-like-a-disease-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/
This explains the ‘prooximity’ problems a lot of people, especially women, have had after close encounters with recently jabbed folk.